The Dillon tribune., 1887-07-22
KILLED HIS WIFE,
A Jealous Husband shoots Hts Wife aud
Attempts Suicide.

Attsmpts Suicide.
At about eleven o'clock Tuesday morn.
ing our community was startled and hor.
ritied by the recurrence If one Of the "gun.
tragedies which are rapidly making fam.
Gus the "burg on the Blacktail." Il
Frequent as these murders nave becu,ne
with US, and accustomed as We are to their
ghast,y enactments, each succeeding one
occasions no less excitement and horror.
Mrs. Kate Grabhorn was a pretty and
petite young woman of nineteen; her hus.
band and murderer, 4 man Of thirty.tive.
They possessed little child, Of about two
years Of age. The husband, we learn, was
cursed with an ungovernable and brutal
temper, and was subject to unreasoning tits
of Jealousy, as their neighbors say, "cause.
less and without foundation
TIE family came to Dillon about four
months ago, from Randolph, Kansas, and |
tor some little time both hustand and wife !
had been working At Jas. Mauldin's ranch,
! about twelve miles from town. Oflate his |
conduct toward her had become SO brutal,
his jealousy 50 uncomfortable that on Mon.
day, after severe quarrel, she left him and
walked to town with her little child In her
arms, and with the intention Of finding
work here and supporting herself apart
from hi,n. He had taken all the house.
hold goods, excepting two quilts.
i While in town she stopped at the resi-
dencc Of Mr.. Tom Tritt, she being sis.
ter Of John Tritt's wife.
After her desertion, her husband must
: have brooded on the matter until he
j, worked himself into an insane frenzy Of
murderous rage. At any rate he came to
town Tuesday with the one mania in pos.
session OF all his faculties---tnurter and
suicide. That it was premeditated there
=, can he no doubt.
lie arrived at tal,out halt.past ten and
went ut once in search Of her. Finding
= her alone, he bluntly requested her to re-
turn and live with him again; to which
she replied. mo" Without a further
;. word to prepare her for the horrible death
he had designed Tor her--with no moment
; granted her to form prayer tn usher her
soul into the "dm beyond" and with
a swift and mercess hand he drew the
weapon and fired with true and steady aim
The woman l,a&, no time even to utter q
SCREAM, the bullet entering just above the
right ear, passing clear through the heat
and burvng itself in the logs OF the wall
y. Hardly had the report sounded ere t~t
ID more came in quick succession, the pisto
directed at himself, but whether his ncrv
failed him with the first, unfortunately 10
himself his aim failed OF its object, bot
- . balls grazing the forehead, inilicting sever
So but not dangerous wounds.
Bv now the neighbor> had reached tn
scene. and when Mrs. Tritt opened tn
:" door a ghas,ly sight met their ewes lpo
p the floor, her living babe clasped in he
" dead arms, lay the remain, of the ono
pretty little wife, Kate Grabhorn, bathcd
he the life. fluid still gushing from her ca
In while upon his hands and knees, gropill
for the pistol which, had dropped from h
nerveless fingers, blood pouring in stream
down his face and obscuring his vision ";
49, the murderer and would.be suicide.
=, Had the ncighbors been moment lat
,,a he would doubtless have recovered II
weapon and made sure conclusion to II
ay
he tragedy.
>, Officers were soon on the spot and Gra
-. horn was take, at once to the Jail whc
-, his injuries were at once attended to-
-. several hours his recovery was doubtt'
-, but with skilful surgical treatment hc h
49,, so tar improved as to have an examinat;'
49,. in court yesterday. lie pleaded guilty al
~, was remandcd to Jail without bail, to aw
.,., the action oi the next Grand Jury.
..s On the afternoon of the day OF the mu
.aa der, an inquest was held upon the body
poor h ate Grabhorn, there lying deas
and a verdict returned in accordance "
>,. the facts.
49, The murderer expresses no regret
the horrible act, save that he failed to
himself. lie has however tho almost G.
tain consolation that what he failed OF
con- :pishing, the machinery OF the law
do successfully.
cad Thus continues the chapter OF horr'
ted which began in 8. with the accidental!
j. in shooting O; pretty Eva Clark, the murd
nth suicidal affair O. st, in which lily. Per
ro>' murdered honest, whole soulcd Nose NJ
l.. ri,on and failed by the traction OF an I"
Jill -c ,,nh.r;n,r , woman into eternity "